ScnooL Boors.—Precedence rightly belongs to a much-wanted class of books,
those which aim at teaching teachers. To this belongs Notes of Lessons. By W. Taylor. (National Society.) -Mr. Taylor teaches in the National Society's Training College at Battersea, and his book is intended as "a manual of instruction and models for pupil-teachers and students in training colleges." To collect the necessary knowledge, and to arrange it when collected in the most efficient form, is the teacher's business ; there is an art of doing this, though most of our great educational authorities seem to doubt it Mr. Taylor's little volume is a practical exemplification of it. His method deals with the simplest subjects ; but there is no reason why it should not 'be transferred to others. It would be a great thing if some great schoolmaster would publish notes of, classical lessons, would let learners in the art know what he actually says to his form. —Practical English Grammar, by the Rev. W. Tidmarsb, B.A. (Rivingtons), seems to be a useful little manual. The beat views of the subject have been carefully studied and adopted. The article, for instance, has disappeared from its traditional place, and is dealt with as an adjective. Exercises are added ; and there is a chapter which should be useful on the " Origin of the English Language."— Dr. Page's Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography (Blackwood) appears in a tenth edition, which has been "revised and enlarged" by Professor C. Lapworth, of the Mason College, Birmingham.— We have also received a "new and revised edition" of Practical Chemistry, by I. Howard, F.C.S. (William Collins and Co.), "adapted to the first stage of the revised syllabus of the Science and Art Department."—Among reading-books, we have The Young Student's English History Reading-book (National Society), and belonging to "Longmnn's Modern Series;" The Illustrated Poetical Reader, by James Booth ; and three parts of The Illustrated Readers, namely, The Primer, The First Book, and The Second Book. All these are pub- lished by Messrs. Longmans. From the same publishers and be- longing to the same series, we have also four little manuals of arith- metic, muted to the first four standards.
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, for 1882. (Harrison.)
— From Sir Bernard Burke's preface to the present edition of this useful work, we learn that during 1881 there were added to heredi- tary dignities one royal dukedom, four few peerages, and three baronies. Lord Howth's admission to the House of Lords reduces the number of Irish peers, exclusively such, below the limit fixed by the Act of Union as necessary to form the constituency for the election of Irish representative lords. One baron has been promoted to a viscounty, and four new baronets have been made. Twenty peers and twenty-two baronets have died during the year 1881, and there have been four extinctions in the Peerage.
Among books of a technical kind and new editions we have re- ceived the following :—A Popular Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, by Professors Milligan and Moulton. (T. and T. Clark.)—Hand- book of Jamaica, corrected up to and for the year 188L—Mr. T. Foster's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage for 1882, the third edition, and The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1882, by the same author and compiler (Nichols and Sons, and Chap- man and Hall), the contents of which have been revised and added to.—The Englishwoman's Year-book for 1882. (Hatchards.)—Burdetes Official Intelligence for 1882, a précis of information issued with the sanction of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, and compiled by H. C. Burdett. (Concbsean and Co.)—The Medical Register for 1882. —The Clergy List for 1882.—The Churchman's Annual.—A Kalendar of the English Church and Ecclesiastical Almanack for 1882. (Rivingtons.)—The Dentists' Register.—C. H. May and Co.'s Press Manual (fifth year of publication), corrected up to the end of January.
— Wilhelm Meister's Travels, translated from Goethe's later and en- larged German edition, and edited by E. Bell, M.A. (Bell and Sons.) —Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Colonel Meadows Taylor's Story of My Life, edited by his Daughter. (Blackwood and Sons.)-1 second edition of the Institutes of Justinian, edited by T. E. Holland. (Clarendon Press.)—Victor Hugo and his Times, by A. Barbon, translated from the French by Ellen E. Frewer. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Yolume IV. of Our Own Country, descriptive, historical, and pictorial. (Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co.)
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